Ohio student loan default rate among highest in U.S.

2:33 AM,
Oct. 13, 2013

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Ohio's student loan default rate is among the 10 highest in the country with nearly 30,000 Ohioans defaulting on federal loans they were supposed to start repaying in 2010, a newspaper reported.

A total of 29,500 Ohioans are among more than 600,000 former college students defaulting on student loans for the three-year period, the Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/17gzfIJ ) reports. Ohio's default rate over that time increased from 13.2 percent to 16.2 percent, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education.